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** The French Tier 7 light tank, the AMX 13/90, weighs only about 13 tons (hence the name), is almost as fast and maneuverable as the T-50-2 and thanks to its revolver auto-loader, is capable of unleashing ''1400'' points of damage in less than 12 seconds, which is enough to kill a Tier 7 ''heavy''.

* [[Play Every Day]] -- The first winning match of the day in each tank gives doubled experience. Some special events increase this, tripling or even ''quintupling'' the experience gained.

** This also applies to vehicles. The terrifying [[Game Breaker]] of the Recruit battles (Tiers 1 and 2), the AT-1, is a tank killer often delivering [[One-Hit Kill|One Hit Kills]] to most enemies, and is also very well-armored and agile for its tier; its only major downside being the reload time for its gun. In real life, its 76mm cannon variant was [[More Dakka|semi-automatic]].

** Averted by the T-54. The developers' answer to the demands to [[Nerf]] its speed and/or armor? "Its statistics shows that the tank is balanced well". This is because many players who get it don't really know how to use it effectively.

*** Especially taxing, since the in-game T-54 marries the armor of the early variants and the agility of later variants. That later agility was historically achieved by reducing the armor.

* [[Popular History]] -- While some maps are based off real battlegrounds and all the vehicles are real, match setups make little to no sense in terms of time periods.

** However, averted by some enthusiasts playing historical setups in custom matches.

* [[Shoot the Fuel Tank]] -- A legitimate tactic against opponents. Destroying fuel tanks will immediately set the tank on fire.

* [[Shooting Superman]] -- Played straight with less experienced players, who will blast away uselessly at the frontal armor of higher tier tanks. Averted with experienced players, who will shoot weak spots and tracks or [[Tactical Withdrawal|retreat]].

* [[Signature Move|Signature Cannon]] -- Some of the cannons are exclusive to a tank - or just mostly used on on it. These weapons are often given [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknames]] or are just called after that tank.

** The most renowned is the 152mm howitzer of the KV-2 (see [[Lethal Joke Character|Lethal Joke Tank]] above), better known as the "derpgun".

* [[Take That]] -- The teasers poke fun at fantasy MMOs [[World of Warcraft|such as another "World Of" game]], hyper-realistic games, [[Eve Online]], and racing games.

* [[Zerg Rush|Tank Rush]] -- In random matches, teams will have a few coordinated platoons of three tanks each ''at best''. Most of the time, teams will have poor coordination, resulting in an unpredictable swarm of armor in the chokepoints. This is surprisingly common even at high tiers and even the best tanks will be much less effective without coordination.

* '''[[Tank Goodness]]''': '''[[The Movie|The Game]]'''

* [[Tech Tree]] -- How one advances through the game. Want to drive around in the IS-4 or King Tiger? You gotta play the tanks before them to unlock them. The tech tree can be bypassed by liberal use of converting regular [[Experience Points|XP]] to [[Leaked Experience|Free XP]] using real money, though you have to earn the regular XP the old-fashioned way, and Premium tanks which are also bought with real money do not have to be unlocked but also do not unlock anything on the tech tree.

* [[Weak but Skilled]] -- Many light tanks and low tier mediums (such as the Leopard or the M7) aren't considered a big deal, often dying in the first few seconds of combat. But even one experienced scout past the frontline can raise hell long enough to prevent the enemy from assembling defenses in time.

** And in general, German cannons deal less damage per capita than their American and Russian counterparts, but penetrate and are accurate much, much farther out.

** Pretty much EVERY stock tank (especially the Tier 1s) except premiums and Tier 10s. When you drive the new tank around, you'll probably feel it's a downgrade from your last one, [[Magikarp Power|but when you get around to upgrading it]]...

** General thought about low-level french tanks.

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